This could be yet another news,  legally South Korea’s Constitutional Court has ruled that human embryos left over after the  fertility treatment are not considered to be life forms and can be used for further research, for other purposes or destroyed, as stated by the court official.

While passing the ruling  the court upheld an existing law that allows the use of unused embryos after the treatment and is permitted for research. The law also allows fertility clinics to discard the frozen embryos after five years of the fertilisation treatment .

“The human embryos that are in their early stage and are not implanted into a mother’s womb cannot be seen as human life forms,” this is what ruling meant as reiterated by the court official.

The ruling came in the wake of a petition filed by a group of people who included some pro-life activists to challenge the court’s ruling against the existing bioethics law prevailing in the country that allows the use of leftover embryos for research.

Not a surprise that after this ruling the existing stem cell research firms have bolded their move and their prices in the share market have gone high.